Profile of Tiger Baron

is there hellcat?

Only in CoH.

The only leftovers from CoH in CoH2 are some structures, like the 25 pounder's emplacement, medic station for the US Army, some animations and so on, but sadly no vehicles.

Well, Jumbo is made thanks to special skin to 76mm sherman and only can work with it. From what i see the fire animation would still start at the ending of 76 mm gun.
I would love to see Jumbo in USF but they didn't want to add Hetzer tank destroyer (becouse of the fire animation) so i don't think they will add this one. It's a shame becouse this unit could acually add some character to the commander. Currently it has good abilities (especially for teamgames) but in my opinion it's more like a mix of diffrent slots than a doctrine that has a strong theme. Again, it doesn't mean they did a dead commander.

I guess you didn't read the last comment I added to the topic covering those concerns, I suggest you go see my answers and the video I showed of it even firing, proving wrong your assumptions that the round will spawn where it would normally on the 76 Sherman.

I might be wrong about it being poorly designed but until proven otherwise I stay besides my opinion that it will need a rework after release.

I always have Feuersturm equiped for urban maps, and I'd say it makes me win at least 75% (I'm rank 20ish with OKW randoms 3v3s) of matches on maps like Ettelbruk Station. The fact that it doesn't have anything shiny like a heavy tank or that it only works on certain maps doesn't mean it's a bad commander. Feuersturm is one of the most fun and best OKW commanders imo.

Oh goody, a commander that situationally performs well on a few maps with a lot of buildings, how nice.

We have truly reached the epitome of commander design in this game while in CoH it didn't matter most of the time about the map but more like what you preferred, what your teammates went and if you know how to play with a given command tree specilizating you in something.

Instead here we have (or had more like) Panic Pumas, tech skipping commanders, commanders that are good on the few maps with a lot of buildings, zerg rush tactics commanders and so on and so on instead of having a few but cohensive, well designed commanders that can fill a variety of roles as long as you know how to play them and they fit your style.

I would say that from the new commanders the only ones to follow their theme and actually be useful, spiritually like CoH, are the UKF Lend-Lease Assault and Ost Armor Reserves altho I think the Assault Panzergrenadiers would have fitted much better, the Assault Grenadiers were only added because they were badly designed and needed to be tweaked. Arguably the OKW commander is also nice but I don't like it's gimmicky MP40 upgrade. I won't mention the Soviet Airborne as I haven't played with it, meanwhile the USF commander looks like a bunch of abilities cubbled together just for the hell of it.

I have no doubt it's a good idea but it's all potential.
In practice all it resulted in is importing old vcoh assets over the new game only a few talented and serious people are commited to mod, in any game where it is possible, given on how low the playerbase is for coh 2 in comparison, I wouldn't see much good stuff out of it.

Take a look at the current workshop for an idea: MLP skins, Anime paints, vcoh recycling.

If they could do it now, which I don't think they can, would they just enable it so that the game can get spammed with vcoh imports and anime mods like they are already swarming the workshop?

Such things as you described plague all workshops not just CoH2's one so yes, I do believe that even if just a few mods like Spearhead, Wikinger, Realism mod and so on benefit from it it would still be worth it.

Not to mention that people have been literally begging for Infantry skins from the start of the game as well.

Considering it has a tanky Sherman with WP shells to shutdown pak guns, Rangers, very strong anti-garrison tools, Sprint Smoke, and Calliope, what do you want it to do? Yes, it doesn't have strong anti-tank, but the USF already has Jacksons supported by 57mm ATGs and zooks.

It's got 2 gimmicky abilities, an unreliable and underperforming rocket tank, an arguably good sort of gimmick for the Sherman and Rangers, who are probably going to be the best thing about this commander by far.

Besides it being too situational for anything, what's this going to provide in comparison or over some of the other commanders like Armor or Mech Companies? Both have call in infantry and better vehicles to deploy as well, not to mention that Mech Company even has the Dozer upgrade as well, what is this good for anyhow apart from the handful of maps that feature an urban environment? If I want to go Rangers I'll just play with Heavy Cav, I can get smoke and a Pershing as well as my riflemen being able to build defenses.

I even told Sander that this commander is probably the most unpopular of the bunch and he agreed with me on my Jumbo thread so I don't see what you're trying to defend here apart from bad decisions on the design part of it like so many commanders in need of a revamp before this.

I'm just pissed off since Tac Support and Rifle Companies need the revamp badly and there was time and potential for a better commander overall here that won't need one but sadly it is what it is.

The last patch has showed why this needs to come back.

The "5 year plan" is long gone and this game is over 6 years old now so I think that it's high time Relic went back and fixed their mistake of disabling model editing and importing.

Here's some examples of what was possible before:

20mm Puma and Wilberwind -


CoH King Tiger -


Jagdpanther -


CoH Hetzer -


Here's 2 bonus videos of model editing in the vanilla game as well:

Troops "riding" on tanks -


"Towing" -


Credits to eliw00d and all of the others who made this possible such a long time ago.

Many games are still alive today and are even largely played because of mods, I don't think that CoH2 is any exception to this. Enabling back model editing and importing would allow modders to not try to do voodoo magic and coming up with bizzare ways of workarounds to make something that they want.

I also strongly believe that it would only serve for the game to sell more copies when people can add anything they want to do the game or even remake it into something entirely new, like for example the Star Wars mod for the original CoH.

While I understand why Relic would do this such a long time ago it doesn't make sense anymore as most of the DLC for the game can be bought with in-game currency anyhow. This now would only serve to boost sales of the game if anything else really.

I know that this comes off as a rant but I'm seriously angered by the fact that modders are so artificially limited right now and for no good reason either. If Iron Harvest or any other CoH-like game in this generation comes with modding tools giving modders the capabilities of transforming the game into anything else they will easily overshadow CoH2 at least in that aspect so this would also be a strategic move on Relic's part as well.